Ten years ago, Maxwell you-can-just-call-me Clark thought he would spend his life as a military man. But his world turned into a nightmare when a suicide bomber destroyed Clark's career. It's been a long road to recovery, but now Clark finally has peace. His bar, Glow, is the place to be in the city of New Amsterdam; Lucian Gray, the son of the mayor, employs Clark as a confidential information man; and Clark’s side venture as part-owner of a BDSM club is quite the profitable release. Clark’s life is a good one, so long as no one gets too close.<br><br>Then a man walks into Glow who will forever change Clark’s rules and reality. Thinking Professor Daniel Germain is just another handsome face ripe for Clark’s kind of good time, Clark puts on his smoothest moves. When the professor turns him down, Clark goes on the hunt, and what he discovers shows him that even the deepest wounds can be healed by submitting to love.

Hearts Under Fire

Immediately sirens, screams, and shouting filled the air. Daniel heard someone on a bullhorn shouting at everyone to get back. He heard the whirl of a helicopter—probably a news team or maybe police, Daniel wasn’t sure and didn’t bother looking up to check. Instead, he concentrated on Clark holding him and walked toward the nearest cruiser.


Clark managed to get Daniel halfway to the police car before a looming presence flanked them on the right.


“Clark,” said Isaac Whitaker, the chief of police. He stood two inches taller than Clark, had a shiny, shaved head, scars on one cheek from a fight with a petty thief who’d been too good with a switchblade, and carried himself like a moving mountain that would not be deterred by anything from weather to wailing women.


“Whitaker,” Clark replied, still moving and keeping his focus on Daniel.


“Is this the man?” the chief asked.


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